This blog was co-written by Anant Shah, Sr. Product Manager, Cisco Data Center Networking.
As AI continues to drive the evolution of digital infrastructure, IT teams are grappling with the growing complexity of monitoring, analyzing, and troubleshooting mission-critical data center networks. The stakes have never been higher, and the need for innovative solutions has never been more urgent.
At Splunk .conf25, Cisco announced a pivotal advancement for the entire enterprise: the Cisco Data Fabric.
This revolutionary architecture, powered by the Splunk platform, is designed to transform the vast “gold mine” of machine data across your organization into AI-ready intelligence.
Kamal Hathi, Senior Vice President and General Management of Cisco’s Splunk business shared “And so what we’re talking about is taking Splunk to the data, going where the data lives. Instead of trying to build this giant data lake, we’re talking about going to these little ponds and puddles of data and combining it into one federated, distributed view.”
By leveraging next-gen federation and data management capabilities, the Cisco Data Fabric enables unified analytics, to analyze and correlate data at massive scale—whether it resides on-premises or in the cloud —without the heavy cost and complexity of centralizing it all.
Cross-Domain Correlation and Unified Visibility
Cisco Data Center Networking already provide rich context aware insights with Cisco Nexus Dashboard
Figure 1: Identify, troubleshoot and fix faster with Nexus Dashboard
One of the biggest advantages of Splunk within the data center ecosystem is its ability to deliver cross-domain correlation.
By integrating with Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), DNA Center (DNAC), and Intersight, customers benefit from a robust, unified platform that breaks down silos. This seamless integration provides a single pane of glass for visibility that spans all layers of the data center—network, compute, and security.
Figure 2: Cisco + Splunk = Better Together
This means customers can monitor performance and issues holistically, ensuring optimized workloads, faster troubleshooting, and actionable insights for next-generation applications.
Start Today and Prepare for Tomorrow: See Your Data Center Networks
The Cisco Data Center Networking (DCN) Splunk App transforms complex network data into a living, breathing dashboard. Imagine your entire data center—metrics, events, logs and traces (MELT) live on one customizable screen. Instead of scattered logs and hidden anomalies, you get instant clarity: every metric, every alert, every insight, right where you need it. The Cisco Splunk App for Data Center Networking (DCN) empowers organizations to cross-correlate information across traditional infrastructure and AI fabrics.
What Makes It Stand Out?
- Effortless Setup: Automated onboarding makes connecting to Splunk simple, whether on-premises, in the cloud, or both.
- Customizable Dashboards: Experience an out-of-the-box and customizable dashboard for all data center infrastructure types with Cisco Nexus Dashboard, Nexus 9000 Series switches, and Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), into a single, unified view. Customize your display to get a quick snapshot of your data center fabric, and easily filter, search, and drill down to detect issues or trends almost as they happen.
- Custom Inputs: The DCN app solution provides default inputs but also provides the ability to customize inputs for customers to ingest any data from their infrastructure into Splunk.
- Smarter Monitoring: Splunk’s AI/ML detect anomalies and predict issues before they escalate, with federated searches to connect data across sites.
- Seamless Operations: Splunk integrates with Webex, Jira, and Teams to keep your team in sync, while audit-friendly storage makes compliance easy.
Experience the Impact
When resource usage spikes, the app sends instant alerts, reveals the story behind the numbers, and suggests next steps—all at once. Whether you’re troubleshooting, planning capacity, or ensuring compliance, the DCN Splunk App gives you a panoramic, actionable view—shrinking resolution times, lowering risk, and unlocking new levels of performance.
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